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Name: Elizabeth
Country: Argentina
Metro: Buenos Aires
Birthday: 6/5/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: impacting the world for Christ, reading, music, movies, musicals, tea, understanding Argentine Spanish, ultimate frisbee, learning guitar, travel, road trips, making lists and schedules
Expertise: making banana bread, talking loudly, US and world capitals, falling down stairs, beating people in Jeopardy
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AIM:  Dryad05
Member Since:
2/7/2005
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| Interesting factoid here: When parents name their children and take their birth certificate to the national registry to get their national ID card, if the name isn't on a list of approved names for Argentines, the parents have to change their kid's name! This prevented Germans, English, indigenous people, and any number of non-Spanish descent people from naming their kids what they wanted. Weird, huh? In the States people can punish their children any way they like, with names like "Apple" without any interference from the government. | | |
| I watched Shrek 2 last night with David, Simonee, and their daughters. It was still pretty funny but it's just not the same in Spanish. Plus, there are so many American pop culture and movie references that I spent half the movie explaining them.
Funny observation: hip packs, or fanny packs, were popular in the early nineties in the States if I remember correctly and are probably considered nerdy nowadays. Here, there are all the rage and super trendy! All the popular kids in the high schools have them.
As anyone noticed that the song Hips Don't Lie sung by Shakira and on the radio here every 10 minutes has a line that says, "you make me feel like a man from a third-world country"? What does that even mean?? | | |
| So Argentina just lost to Germany and everyone is bummed. I myself am let down. I never watched soccer games in my life before this month but the game was pretty exciting! In my opinion, Argentina definite dominated the game in general, and we lost at the end to penalty kicks! Qué bajón.
They're already talking about South Africa 2010!! | | |
| The World Cup is a big deal here. There is blue and white (Argentine colors) all over the place, and people are scheduling important events around the soccer games that Argentina plays in. Maybe I just lived in a bubble isolated from all things soccer, but I do not remember this level of fanaticsm at all in the States for any previous World Cups. Brazil is the biggest rival of Argentina. I'm memorized the jingle that is on the radio a lot to cheer on Argentina's team. Vamos vamos, Argentina, vamos vamos, a ganar . . . ! | | |
| Happy 25 de Mayo!! That's May Revolution Day (still not quite clear on the difference between this and Independence Day, but I know there is one). Today I ate a huge lunch of locro, a traditional dish in Northwestern Argentina. It's a very thick stew-ish dish, including beef, bacon, other cuts of pork (I don't what to know which . . .), squash, corn, and beans. It was good stuff! Adolfo, a member of the congregation, prepared it (he got up at 6am to begin cooking) and we all sat down together to enjoy at 1pm . . . 30 people total. Afterwards some of us went to the park and had mate. I was excited because I ran into one of my English students there and got to meet her family.
It's getting colder here, and there is no central heating in the buildings. I have a small space heater for my bedroom. Last night when I went to bed, it was 58 degrees F in my room--brrrr!! This is still a strange phenomenon. It is nowhere near as cold as St. Louis or Madison, but the temperature drops so much inside because of the different construction style and lack of central heating. I miss my down comforter :)
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